The 2004 film “Day Without a Mexican” conjured a moment when a mystery fog spirited away all of California’s Latinos, and then imagined how the state would fare without that industrious labor force. Assessment: not well. Not so fast, asserted Megan Clyne in National Review, a publication whose mission…
Sure, I might have missed it. Since reality TV started chewing its way through the television schedule like a weevil in a cotton boll, what’s to watch? Nonetheless, I’m confident I have seen something on TV rarely if ever tried by Democrats: A candidate is going right after his opponent’s attempt…
Looking back, I must have written 10,000 words about that old building on East Waco’s Clifton Street. It was a decrepit nursing home at one time. Then McLennan County converted it into a makeshift juvenile detention center. In the ’90s it got upgraded and expanded. That meant young detainees would have…
Back in my early 40s, my doctor presented me with a curious diagnosis: high blood pressure. This made no sense. I was healthy and active. My cholesterol was perfect, as was everything else save my hairline. The doctor said that lots of otherwise healthy people have the condition, and science has no ready…
Oh, man, that fog of war. Sweat and smoke in your eyes. Not always sure what you’re shooting at. One minute you try to nail the enemy — Barack Obama — as a Muslim who won’t fess to it. Then your new commanding general, Glenn Beck, directs fire at him for liberation (Christian)…